Carleigh Baker

CARLEIGH BAKER is an author and teacher of Cree-Métis and European descent. Born and raised on Stó:lō territory, she currently lives on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy ̓ əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and səl̓ilwəta. Her debut story collection, Bad Endings, won the City of Vancouver Book Award, and was a finalist for the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Indigenous Voices Award for fiction. Her short stories and essays have been translated into several languages, and anthologized in North America and Europe. Her new story collection, Last Woman, was a finalist for the 2025 Jim Deva Prize for writing that provokes.